Mikko Hyppönen
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Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen October 13, 1969 |
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| Nationality | Finnish | ||
| Other names | Mikko Hypponen | ||
| Occupation | Chief Research Officer for F-Secure | ||
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Virus Bulletin Award for Best educator in the anti-malware industry 2010 #61 Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011 #43 on the 50 Most Important People on the Web 2007 list by PC World |
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| Website | mikko |
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Virus Bulletin Award for Best educator in the anti-malware industry 2010
#61 Foreign Policy's Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2011
Mikko Hermanni Hyppönen (Finnish pronunciation: ['mik:o 'hyp:ønen]; born 1969 in Finland) is a computer security expert and columnist. He's known for the Hypponen Law about IoT security.
Mikko Hyppönen is Chief Research Officer at F-Secure. He has worked at F-Secure in Finland since 1991.
Hyppönen has assisted law enforcement in the United States, Europe and Asia since the 1990s on cybercrime cases and advises governments on cyber crime. His team took down the Sobig.F botnet.
In 2004, Hyppönen cooperated with Vanity Fair on a feature, The Code Warrior, which examined his role in the Blaster and Sobig Computer worms.
Hyppönen has given keynotes and presentations at a number of conferences around the world, including Black Hat, DEF CON, DLD, and RSA. In addition to data security events, Hyppönen has delivered talks at general-interest events, such as TED, TEDx, DLD, SXSW and Google Zeitgeist. He's also spoken at various military events, including AFCEA events and the NATO CCD COE's ICCC. Hyppönen is a reserve officer in the Finnish Army.
Hyppönen is a member of the advisory board of IMPACT (International Multilateral Partnership Against Cyber Threats) since 2007 together with Yevgeny Kaspersky, Hamadoun Touré, Fred Piper and John Thompson.
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